sherlock holmes

Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions. “Did you see him?” he… Read More »The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph.… Read More »The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to cooperate… Read More »The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger

It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long… Read More »The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

Mr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all… Read More »The Adventure of the Creeping Man

Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatchbox with my name,… Read More »The Problem of Thor Bridge

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and… Read More »The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a… Read More »The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

I don’t think that any of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with… Read More »The Adventure of the Three Gables

It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been… Read More »The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone